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Those who died from the coronavirus have saturated the capacity of the Madrid municipal funeral home in terms of cremation. That is the reason why the City Council of the capital has already started negotiations with other regions to try to move the bodies there and lighten the collapse suffered by their municipal service , as confirmed by the municipal spokeswoman, Inmaculada Sanz.

The municipal funeral is suffering delays in cremations that reach two and three days due to the high rate of deaths that the coronavirus is causing in the Madrid population - 4,175, according to the latest official data . "Normal activity is 54 services a day and the average now reaches 115 daily," said the spokeswoman, who noted that even "peaks" of 165 have been reached.

A figure that is hardly acceptable at the moment for municipal services, which has eight ovens that can provide approximately eight daily services. This would put the amount in an average between 60 and 70 cremations that are widely surpassed at the moment. It is for this circumstance that the City Council has looked abroad.

"All funeral homes are in a situation of tension regarding their services and it is not easy to reach agreements," Sanz has warned, however, who has assured that in previous days "the hiring of cremations had to be stopped" to "address the that had accumulated. " A situation that has affected that "trying to solve with all the resources we have" until "practically up to date" .

The spokeswoman also insisted that this circumstance is occurring only in the case of cremations since the rhythm of burials is maintained at a "normal" rate, while the workload in the case of cremations "up to triples the activity it usually has . "

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